Genomic mosaicism in the developing and adult brain

Developmental Neurobiology
Suzanne RohrbackJ Chun

Abstract

Since the discovery of DNA, the normal developing and functioning brain has been assumed to be composed of cells with identical genomes, which remains the dominant view even today. However, this pervasive assumption is incorrect, as proven by increasing numbers of reports within the last 20 years that have identified multiple forms of somatically produced genomic mosaicism (GM), wherein brain cells-especially neurons-from a single individual show diverse alterations in DNA, distinct from the germline. Critically, these changes alter the actual DNA nucleotide sequences-in contrast to epigenetic mechanisms-and almost certainly contribute to the remarkably diverse phenotypes of single brain cells, including single-cell transcriptomic profiles. Here, we review the history of GM within the normal brain, including its major forms, initiating mechanisms, and possible functions. GM forms include aneuploidies and aneusomies, smaller copy number variations (CNVs), long interspersed nuclear element type 1 (LINE1) repeat elements, and single nucleotide variations (SNVs), as well as DNA content variation (DCV) that reflects all forms of GM with greatest coverage of large, brain cell populations. In addition, technical considerations are exa...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
flow
fluorescence activated cell sorting
flow cytometry
MDA
pulldown

Software Mentioned

scWGS
MDA

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